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This page contains advertisements and book reviews from an early 20th-century Life magazine issue. **Advertisements:** - **Beeman's Pepsin Gum** (left): Promotes chewing gum as a digestive aid, claiming 30+ years of scientific backing. This reflects period marketing that credited gum with health benefits—a common claim before modern FDA regulations. - **Marmola** (right): Advertises weight-loss tablets targeting an "underactive gland" (likely thyroid), claiming scientific validation from animal tests. This exemplifies dangerous vintage diet advertising; such products often contained harmful substances like thyroid extracts. - **Brown Lavender Smelling Salts** and **Europe travel tours** (bottom): Additional period advertisements. **Cartoon:** A single-panel cartoon shows a museum visitor observing what appears to be a glass object, quipping that it "must have been made by a glass blower with the hiccoughs!"—a simple visual pun about the object's irregular shape. **Book Reviews:** The page includes literary reviews of contemporary novels, notably Jean Rhys's *Quartet* and Basil Woon's *When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba*.

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Life 38 eee) early everybody needs a mild digestive stimulant VER 30 years ago Dr. Beeman perfected this delicious chew- ing gum—as the best way of giving wholesome and pleasant aid to digestive action. No other brand has ever equaled Beeman’s Pepsin Gum in this respect, or in its keenness of flavor and wonderful smoothness. Buy a package or a box | today. You'll enjoy it after meals, and— BEEMANS PEPSIN GUM aids digestion time in poring over old newspapers, and talking to local characters. But, in spirit, the book is just a little too academic, a little too reminiscent of “Charles Town- send Copeland with the writer's admira- tion, affection, and gratitude.” I wonder if “Copey” considers this a good book; I’m sorry if I didn’t. Quartet (Simon and Schuster) by Jean Rhys is as well told, and as unsatisfactory a novel as I have read in some time. In clarity, brilliance—and sub- ject—it is a work comparable to Schnitz- ler’s best, one of those books about people you thoroughly detest, that you can’t put down unfinished. What beauty there is in the book is in the author’s style. Hard, concise, it re lentlessly depicts the struggles in adultery of three residents of Montparnasse, on the Left Bank of the Seine. Marya Zelli, left alone because her hus- band has been committed to prison, is taken in by the Heidlers, an English couple. Between the attentions of the husband and the hatred of the wife, Marya is engulfed completely. eee Wuen It’s Cocktan Time 1x Cusa (Liveright), by Basil Woon, is a practical hand-to-mouth guide to Cuba, with special attention to Havana, where to go, and what to see. Not to mention what to drink and where to get it. The three R's of Cuba are Rum, Rou- lette, and Racing, and the visitor to those delectable shores is presumed to be in search of such schooling. Havana is famed as the place for painting the town red. The sky, they say, is the limit, and the sky is high, wide, and handsome with stars. The book is recommended as a guide for those who go to Cuba ..and as a substitute for those who don’t. Museum Visrror: Hmmn! That must have been made by a glass blower with the hiccoughs! How Science Not by starving Some 25 years ago, scientists found a great cause of excess fat. It lies in an under.active gland, By thousands of tests on fat animals ey found that treating this cause led to loss of weight and gain in health and vigor. Tht i Nt discovery changed the methods of dealing Ne with excess fat. That is the basic factor in Marmola pre r scription tablets, People have used them for i over 20 years—millions of boxes of them ’ They did not starve or overwork. They simply took four tablets daily until weight came N down to not atl Users told the others the results. The use pa of Marmola spread. Now you see the results [hold in every circle. Excess fat is disappearing. feets Slender figures are the rule. New youth end wer beauty, new vitality, has come to countless peop people in this modern way. heath Consider these facts. Then, if you areseek. 3.5 ing like results, get them in this scientific way. J best. Every box of Marmola contains the formala, find. also the reasons for results. As fat departsand JB not new vitality returns you will know exactly fand why. Try the method which for 20 years has — brought such delightful results to so many, Do it now. You owe that to yourself. Marmola prescription tablets are sold by all druggists at$1 per box. If your druggist is out, he will get at once from his jobber. MARMOLA Se Diecoent Way to ravenoee SAuTs At home, at the theatre, while seeping or traveling, or if yeu fin reelf in stuffy rooms o crowded places, the panreat fr grance of Lavender Smelling Salts clears the brain, steadies the nerves, counteracts It is ie comfort rown comicbooks.com